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Daughter Ends Fight to Thaw Ted Williams Wed Jun 16,11:18 AM ET INVERNESS, Fla. - The daughter and son-in-law of the late Ted Williams have ended their two-year fight to have the baseball great's remains removed from an Arizona cryonics lab. AP Photo Ask Yahoo! • How Does Cryogenics Work?   Bobby-Jo and Mark Ferrell spent close to $100,000 battling Williams' estate and his son, John Henry Williams. But when the money ran out, so did their will to keep trying, and a settlement was signed Tuesday. "It's over," their attorney, John Heer said Wednesday. "There's just no way...

<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (Ticker) -- John Henry Williams, the son of late Hall of Famer Ted Williams who was at the center of a controversy over his father's remains, died Sunday. He was 35.</p> <p>A Red Sox spokesman confirmed the death of Williams, but gave no details.</p>

John Henry Williams, the son of Ted Williams, died Sunday morning, ESPN reported. Williams, who was diagnosed with leukemia last October, was 35. He had undergone a bone marrow transplant, ESPN reported, after chemotherapy had failed. It is unclear if John Henry Williams also will be frozen.

<p>John Henry Williams, the son of Hall of Famer Ted Williams, is fighting for his life in a West Coast hospital after undergoing a bone marrow transplant recently, and his younger sister, Claudia, was the donor, according to friends and associates of John Henry Williams.</p>

INVERNESS, Fla. -- The son of Hall of Famer Ted Williams has been diagnosed with leukemia. John Henry Williams, 35, was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this month, Eric Abel, Williams' attorney, said Thursday. Abel would not discuss any other aspects of Williams' condition. John Henry Williams told the Citrus County Chronicle on Thursday that he was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia at UCLA Medical Center and that he has already started chemotherapy. "The whole goal is get the leukemia in remission," Williams told the newspaper from Los Angeles for a story to be published Friday. Attempts made by The Associated...

Ted Williams' only son, who froze the Splendid Splinter's remains after he died of a heart attack last year, has been diagnosed with a rare blood disease, according to a broadcast report. ``He is sick and he's quite depressed,'' a source told the Herald about John Henry Williams, 34, who lives in Florida. John Henry may very well have leukemia, according to three ``separate and reliable'' sources, WBZ-TV Ch. 4 reported yesterday. cw4 Ted Williams' brother, Daniel, died of leukemia in 1960 at the age of 36. cw-2 The younger Williams has been the subject of intense criticism since he...

<p>A Scottsdale cryonics company is disputing a story in today's issue of Sports Illustrated that claims the company decapitated baseball great Ted Williams' body, mishandled it and has lost samples of his DNA.</p> <p>Carlos Mondragon, a director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, said the magazine's report relied on allegations from a disgruntled employee, Larry Johnson, who until this week had been the company's chief operating officer.</p>

"Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "and I will write you a tragedy." Hero is a word thrown around all too loosely these days. Middle infielders who slap singles in the ninth inning of a game in April are called heroes. Ted Williams was the real deal. He flew fighter jets in wartime and in peacetime gave baseball fans the sublime measure of what it means to be a hitter. The tragedy to befall this hero is something Fitzgerald could never have imagined. It has occurred during Williams' post-mortem days. The fighting among his children, the deep controversy...

Thursday, January 30 Armstrong: A war would make racing difficult -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reuters MILAN -- American cyclist Lance Armstrong, the four-time Tour de France champion, says he is concerned about his security if the United States goes to war against Iraq. "We Americans do not enjoy much sympathy abroad at the moment," Armstrong said in an interview with the Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport published on Thursday. "If I have to do the Tour with a war under way it would be very difficult for me." "In cycling you ride in the open -- there is no fencing or protection...

The New York Times Strikes Out:Barry Bonds, Race, and "Mr. Subliminal" ByNicholas Stix Toogood Reports [Tuesday, September 3, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ Last Sunday's New York Times Magazine contained a long article on Barry Bonds by David Grann that was wonderful, if you knew nothing about baseball or Bonds. Remember Kevin Nealon's Saturday Night Live character, "Mr. Subliminal"? Everything he said out loud was a lie, which he would betray with the contradiction he'd mutter in his next breath. And so it is, with the New York Times' Mr. Subliminal, David Grann. Grann claims he isn't writing a story...

<p>ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Ted Williams signed a pact with two of his children asking to be frozen after his death, according to court documents filed Thursday.</p> <p>Williams' signature, along with those of son John Henry and daughter Claudia, appears at the bottom of a handwritten note dated Nov. 2, 2000 -- more than three years after Williams signed a will requesting to be cremated.</p>

07/22/2002 08:29 am ET A time to celebrate Ted Williams By Ian Browne / MLB.com BOSTON -- Everyone knows who Ted Williams was. But it's likely that the majority of people who stroll into Fenway Park Monday to celebrate his life never met him or saw him play. The goal of the Red Sox in what should be a poignant tribute is to make everyone feel like they knew a man who is one of baseball's all-time icons. "What we want to do is provide an atmosphere for why and when and where they came to know about, love, and...

GOTTA SEE THIS -The War for Enduring Freedom+ 7/20/02 [Part 2] Kabul, Shomali, Jammu, Lebanon, Ain al-Hilweh, Vanilla sky FRONT PAGE NEWS - Kabul: Afghans in the water and their first lottery run by Afghan Red Crescent Society, Shomali village, Jammu, India, and Islamic "peace" Lebanon: Ain al-Hilweh, and the Hilton that never made it. Vanilla sky, Ted and Alcor BREAKING NEWS: Part 1 is here ============ AFGHANISTAN ================ In Kabul, Afghans are cooling off. In Kabul, Afghans had their first lottery run by Afghan Red Crescent Society, who scammed 100,000 tickets, for a car, bicycles, and a few televisions....

Semper Fi at FenwayJuly 11, 2002 Last week's passing of Boston Red Sox baseball legend Ted Williams has prompted me to deviate from commenting on the business of politics and focus instead on what happens in real life. My friends in the freedom movement frequently deride sports as insufficiently serious. Given the choice between watching a game and, say, watching a movie or reading a science fiction novel, I'll watch a game anytime. Here's why. When Ted Williams was a 20-year-old rookie, he said, "All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks...

Major League baseball definitely lost one of its all-time greats with the passing of Ted Williams. Anybody who is intimately familiar with the game of baseball knows the contributions made to his sport by the "Splendid Splinter." Until his death, Joe DiMaggio insisted that he be introduced as "America’s greatest living ballplayer" at all his personal appearances. I mean no disrespect to DiMaggio, however. He was certainly one of the greats of the game. But for my money, that title was rightfully earned, but never demanded by Ted Williams. I find it strangely ironic that Ted Williams, a proud, obstinate,...

John Henry Williams, left, reportedly wants to freeze the body of his dead father Ted Williams, right, for future cloning purposes. The two are shown here in 1995. Dispute arises over body of Ted Williams Estranged daughter saysson wants to freezeHall of Fame father for cloning NBCSPORTS.COM NEWS SERVICES     July 6 —  A day after the death of baseball great Ted Williams, a dispute has already arisen over what to do with his body, as Williams’ estranged daughter says her half-brother plans to freeze the Hall of Famer’s body — possibly in hopes of selling his DNA...

Daughter says Williams' body is being frozen New York Times News Service Ted Williams' estranged daughter says the baseball great's son plans to freeze the hitter's body in hopes of reviving him in the future -- a decision that she said goes against Williams' wishes to be cremated. Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams's oldest child, said that Williams' son, John Henry Williams, had approached her last year about possibly freezing the ailing slugger's body at the Arizona-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which has frozen 49 bodies. Ferrell's husband, Mark, said John Henry said that Alcor would freeze Williams's head for...

Sometimes, we never get to say goodbye, never quite show how we feel or tie up all the loose ends. But, with Ted Williams, thank heaven, it was different at the end. Three years ago at the All-Star Game, when he was 80 and weakened by strokes, but still mentally sharp, baseball finally digested and sorted all its complex feelings about The Splendid Splinter. The fame and the feuds, the .406 season and the fierce, aloof individualism, the feats as a fighter pilot in two wars and the failures as a manager, all of them came together. And baseball decided...

He was one of baseball's greatest!

I guess every player thinks about going into the Hall of Fame. Now that the moment has come for me, I find it difficult to say what is really in my heart. But I know it is the greatest thrill of my life. I received two hundred and eighty-odd votes from the writers. I know I didn't have two hundred and eighty-odd close friends among the writers. I know they voted for me because they felt in their minds, and some in their hearts, that I rated it, and I want to say to them: Thank you, from the bottom...